In everyday life you can find that almost 75% of the information we obtain inour interactions comes from non verbal language.There are many Sciences that study the meaning of those movements:


1. PROXEMICS

Study the way people construct and manage “microspace” the distance between themselves and others in ordinary daily life. We get closed to people or get away from them. It gives us the clues to interpret our feeling towards the others

Through proxemics we know the existence of the CONFORT ZONE
  • Intimate
  • Good friends
  • Acquaintances
  • General public

2. KINETICS


Study the nonverbal coding systems of body activity as related to human communication

3. SEMIOTICS


It’s the science that seeks to understand how Natural or constructed signs and symbols function as a communication medium


Through semiotics we could differentiate SIGNS

  • Units of nonverbal communication
  • Gestures
  • Movements
  • Face expression
  • Any movement that convey information from CUE/s
  • Nonverbal signs used to prompt an event, behaviour or experience or SIGNAL
  • Used to inform as to what will happen, a hint or warning.


THE MOST COMMON NONVERBAL SIGNS ARE:

1. Emblems
2. Ilustrators
3. Adaptors
4. Regulators
5. Affect Displayers

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PARALANGUAGE

  • Qualifiers: volume, inflection, pitch, pacing, tone, melodiousness.
  • Characterizers: sounds, sights, mumbling, groans, whines, yawning, laughing , cryings ( show character, emotions, and sensations)
  • Segregates: Fillers in speech, Pauses, silence or sounds: Oh! Ah-ah!, like-a, sh, Uhuh